Some of the most respected jazz musicians in the North West will gather in Menai Bridge for another of North Wales Jazz's great jam sessions.

Fronted by guitarist Trefor Owen and saxophonist Mike Hall, they promise a varied symposium of the old and new with some of the greatest musical talent North Wales has to offer at the Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge

Under the guidance of two of the country's premier players, Owen and Hall will invite instrumentalists and singers to come and sit in with the free-form band, which will be made up of saxophone, guitar, double bass, keyboards and drums.

As head of jazz studies at the Royal Northern College of Music – where he teaches jazz improvisation, theory, history, and saxophone – and as director of the RNCM Big Band, Hall has worked with some of the most renowned players in jazz, including Americans Bob Mintzer, Wayne Shorter, Bob Brookmeyer and Brian Blade.

Hall has appeared at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club with the Echoes of Ellington Orchestra, performed a gala concert at the World Saxophone Congress in Slovenia, toured the UK with Andy Scott’s Sax Assault and continues to perform with his own quartet.

Collaborator Owen is resident tutor at the Glyndwr University's North Wales International Jazz Guitar Weekends and has toured the UK with such American guitar greats as Mundell Lowe and Randy Johnston.

He has also brought his expertise to the Classic American Guitar Show and the prestigious Jazz Cafe at the Smithsonian Institution in the US.

There will also be a pre-jam workshop at the event next Wednesday, February 21.

The workshop begins at 7pm and admission is £3. The jam session follows at 8.30pm.

Tickets are £6.50 with concessions available. Admission is free for both events for 'sitters-in' under the age of 25 and for performers' parents.